Eliezer Steinman

Eliezer Steinman אליעזר שטיינמן
Born	1892 Obodówka, Podolia, Russian partition of Poland
Died	August 7, 1970 (aged 77 or 78) Tel Aviv, Israel
Language	Hebrew and Yiddish
Ethnicity	Jewish
Citizenship	Israeli
Notable awards	Bialik Prize (1959) Israel Prize (1963)

Eliezer Steinman (Hebrew: אליעזר שטיינמן‎‎; born 1892, died 7 August 1970) was a Russian-born Israeli writer, journalist and editor.

Steinman was born in 1892 in Obodówka, part of the Sobański estate in Podolia in the Russian Partition of Poland. It was a village in the Podolia Governorate of the Russian Empire, later again part of Poland after World War I, now Obodivka in Ukraine. In his youth, while studying in Chişinău to obtain semikhah to become a rabbi, he began to publish his first stories. Starting in 1910, his works, in Yiddish and Hebrew, began to appear in newspapers such as "Rashaphim", "Ha-Shiluach" and "Ha-Tsefirah" and he earned a living by teaching. During those years, he became associated with David Frischmann and Hayim Nahman Bialik, who worked to obtain his release from service in the Imperial Russian Army.

In 1917, following the Bolshevik Revolution, he adopted a communist ideology and asked to be allowed to develop Hebrew culture. He moved to Moscow and began to work for the Shtiebal publishing house and published his first novel. In 1919, he moved to Odessa and published the pamphlet "The Hebrew Communist". From 1920, Steinman was one of the regular writers for "Ha-Tsefirah" and for the Yiddush newspaper, "Der Mament" (The Moment). In 1923 to 1924, he published the magazine "Kolot" (Voices).

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